William Notter is from northeastern Colorado. He has had his poetry published in a number of journals and won an award for his book of poetry, Holding Everything Down. Notter has taught writing at the University of Nevada and Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He currently lives in Virginia. There's never enough of the right kind of rain, and always too much of what we get. We've got no need for casinos-- keeping the farm is enough to gamble on. If the seed doesn't blow out of the ground in December, the wheat gets laid down flat in the fields by hail come summer. Spring blizzards get the calves,…